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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24741121, member: 26430&quot;]Congratulations! One measure of a collection is how long it took to find some of the coins (or other objects) included. That must&#039;ve been quite a thrill to receive the coin &amp; see the reverse (assuming you didn&#039;t know until it arrived).</p><p><br /></p><p>Since <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/show-us-your-ancient-coin-library-here-a-numismatic-literature-post.405857/page-2#post-24740045" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/show-us-your-ancient-coin-library-here-a-numismatic-literature-post.405857/page-2#post-24740045">I finally just got my copy of Failmezger</a>, I&#039;ll contribute some relevant text from pp. 96 &amp; 113 (this coin is his type 413c):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582717[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure if I&#039;ve ever waited 20 years to find a coin...</p><p><br /></p><p>But here&#039;s a very specific piece of numismatic literature that took me 20-30 years to find -- that is, find again, after losing my original copy:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582718[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Colosseum Coin Exchange </i>Mail Bid Sale 59 + Fixed Price List 91</b> (22 November 1991, Ira Teitelbaum, Hazlet, NJ).</p><p>Ref: <a href="https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/library/salescatalogue/SALECA-D.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/library/salescatalogue/SALECA-D.html" rel="nofollow">Fitzwilliam (A-D)</a>; <a href="https://archive.org/details/AmericanNumismaticAuctions" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/AmericanNumismaticAuctions" rel="nofollow">Gengerke</a> –.</p><p>Prov: Ex Libraries Joel Malter (1921-2006) &amp; BCD Duplicates.</p><p><br /></p><p>To most, relatively meaningless. But Lot #2 (Aegina Drachm) is my first auction win, and 3rd or 4th coin ever (back when I bought exactly one per year). When I was still a teenager someone decided it wasn&#039;t worth keeping my old ancient coin fixed price lists and mail bid sales.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had been looking for another copy almost ever-since. As one can imagine, not easy to find a specific no. from the &gt;127 MBS and &gt;133 FPLs produced by CCE!</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a surprise find in a <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9885395" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9885395" rel="nofollow">group lot of BCD Library Duplicates</a> (I knew there was a CCE in there, but wasn&#039;t even sure which date I needed).</p><p><br /></p><p>Special bonus: Ex Malter, who owned a legendary library, auctioned in 2006. (He literally died within hours of auctioning it: <a href="https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n25a03.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n25a03.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n25a03.html</a>.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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